From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 24 17:01:33 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D47AB16A4CE for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 17:01:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sferics.mongueurs.net (sferics.mongueurs.net [81.80.147.197]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B5EE43D1D for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 17:01:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from david@landgren.net) Received: from [172.17.1.1] (exo.bpinet.com [81.80.147.206]) by sferics.mongueurs.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B786A96C for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:01:31 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <421E086A.8060308@landgren.net> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:01:30 +0100 From: David Landgren Organization: The Lusty Decadent Delights of Imperial Pompeii User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <1505159320.20050223203426@wanadoo.fr> <200502231635.31538.m.hauber@mchsi.com> <1723646570.20050224064608@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <1723646570.20050224064608@wanadoo.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Different OS's? Marketshare X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 17:01:34 -0000 Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Mike Hauber writes: [...] >>Well... There's a lot of options available. Personally, I prefer >>something like blackbox for administrative logins. It's _very_ >>lightweight and (like all things should be), you pretty much >>build it from the ground up. > > > What do you mean by building it from the ground up? > > What do I get when I type startx by default? It looks extremely simple, > whatever it is, just a few simple windows in green borders on a rather > irritating gray crosshatched background. Yeah, ugly as f... fleas on a dog, isn't it? I found fluxbox to be a very nice window manager. Very lightweight, useable, and stylish enough to make people's heads turn and ask you what you're running. And the coolest bit is... tabbed x-terms! Just like Mozilla and web pages. No doubt other managers have this feature, but once you've used it it's very hard to go back. Fluxbox installs straight from ports, no trouble at all. I seem to recall there being two versions, ancient and current. Make sure you get the current one. David